This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hamilton, Covey Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/CGC.2ACI/406.1 Message Board Post: Just learning about Winnebago County Farm (possibly "Winnebago County Farm for Boys" was affiliated). I did an online search and found some helpful info. My g-aunt, ABBIE HAMILTON COVEY (d.1936), resided at the Winn. Co. Farm just prior to her death. My research indicates this was a "poor farm". She was at least 70 and from the Co. Farm was taken to Elgin State Hospital where she died (apparently a mental institution) and was buried in "Local Cemetery." Don't know if "Local" meant she was buried at this Co. farm site or another local cemetery.There is a Winnebago Co. Farm Cemetery near the Co. Farm site .... no names on grave sites, only numbers. Address of Co. Farm Cemetery is "off 4400 North Main Street, Rockford, IL behind the present River Bluff Nursing Home." A website I found states that there is "a small book of reocrds" for the Co. Farm burials at the Rockford Public Library. Did you find anything more on the the County Farm for Boys? Leslie Hamilton Kapell budles@frontiernet.net